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Show TELEGRAPHIC LOUMAA. The lCrpnbllrna rommitt. e'i Reply Co the Ueiuoeralic iouuae). New Orleans, 20. The republican counsel's replication to the senate committee allegeB its ability to prove. First That the late election was at certain polls and precincts nullified by violence and intimidation, consisting consist-ing of secret conspiracies, leagues and armed bodies of brigands, known ae bulldozers, who whipped, shot, I bung, burned, mutilated And assassinated assassi-nated white and colored republicans, , thus producing terrorism among the republicans lasting over ft year prior to the election. Second The stale election laws were enacted to meet uuch a condition condi-tion of affairs. They declare the election elec-tion thus held to be null and void, and vest the reluming board wilh power to examine into the facts where such a condition of affairs exist g, and if proven, to declare void any such election by rejectng and refuuing to count such pretended vetes. That this law ia righteous and juat. Third The returning officers accordingly ac-cordingly sxaminvd and found ia certain parishes that the election was nullified by such a state oi affaire, and the returning officers, as the law commanded, declared the nullity and rejected the votes r( districts thus terrorized. Fourth At the recent election, 1,200 to 1,500 republican voters, who wished and attempted to vote the republican re-publican ticket, were put in fear of their lives and terrified systematically, and by outrages were presented from caeliiig their ballots. Five to six thousand vuters were thus .orced to vote the democratic ticket. Fifth Thus was the right to vote of 6,000 to 20,000 colored pergons denied de-nied and abridged, ! Sixth Such abridgment was in whole or part of the parishes of EaBt Eft'.en Rouge.East and West Feliciani, Ouachita, Morehouse, Kichlaud, Grant, Livingston, Franklin, Sabine, Glatibonnc, Djeto, Jackaon, and Natchitoches. In the foicgoing parishes not less than from 16,000 to 20,000 voters were prevented from voting as they chose. Seventh 'hie denial and abridgment abridg-ment was the result of a conspiracy for the violent suppression of enough republican votes to enable the conspirators con-spirators to carry the Ute for the democrats. Armed bodies of men carried out the conspiracy. They used every known means, massacres, whipping, hanging, etc. Eighth This conspiracy and resulting result-ing acts wore committed by white democrats. .Ninth The purpose was lo coerce sufficient republican voters to vote the democratic ticket to secure an apparent democratic majority in the state. A preconcerted conspiracy is shown by Fatton's confidential circular issued by the chairman of the state , democratic committee. By the seloc- i lion ot those parishes for bulldozing, i which skirt the states of Mississippi: and Arkansas, and render violence: easier. They were the strong republi- j can parishes, by sudden and eimul- taneous outbreaks about the election in these parishes, by encouragement received from this city aad by the failure to attempt conviction by lack of condemnation of these acts by the press and pubiic meetings or the clergy. While citizens who ventured to denounca the outrages have been menaced with proscription, and thus silenced. The democrats have denied these outrages, or attributed them to the negligence ot the local officers, knowing that the local officers were powerless by the same terrorism. Eleventh Under the state law, the returning officers alone can make returns ot election; neither the supervisors super-visors nor the commissioners of registration regis-tration can make and declare the returns. re-turns. Twelfth The effect of such lawlessness lawless-ness spread into the surrounding parishes. Thirteenth Iu East Feliciana, the horrible niHrder of John Gair, ex-representative ex-representative and sergeant-at-arms ot the house of representatives, under the pretence that he killed a man who is now alive, and who was tied to a tree and shot to death, was a crime committed by tho democrats for , reasons growing out ot political animosities, ani-mosities, and for political ends. It was the most dastardly act in the history of crime, and yet its perpetrators perpetra-tors go unpunished and unsought I after. Fourteenth In Ouaohita Dink-grave Dink-grave was assassinated for similar reasons. Fifteenth The assassination of Senator Twite-hell, in Ked river I parish, was secretly contrived by the democrats for a political end. Finally the counsel call attention to a parallel between the aflaus of lS68and 1S76, remarking that few democrats now dare deny the outrage out-rage ot 186S, which have passed into history. (Signed) Hcoh J. Campbell, Chairman of the Committee. |